Current knowledge acquisition practices place undue restrictions on the issues placed under consideration when they are applied in an organisational context. This paper reviews a number of such techniques and explores their limitations for many `real world' business problems. Managerial and administrative problem solving, in particular, predicate a less obtrusive and more interpretive methodolo...

This article is about a teaching strategy that operationalizes an aspect of the National League for Nurses' position statement "Transforming Nursing Education" and the Institute of Medicine's report "Crossing the Quality Chasm." Engaging students with patients' first-person experiences related to health and illness and their experiences with health care can help students learn about the multipl...

This paper discusses the synthesis of qualitative data during the systematic review of interpretive research. Current approaches to data synthesis can be broadly classified as either descriptive or interpretive. Descriptive data synthesis is achieved through narrative and tabulation. While a number of different terms have been used, interpretive synthesis is achieved through processes similar t...